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In a recent
'Local Past', it was stated that the nearest bombs to Alcester to fall in the 2nd World
War were in the Alne Hills. Mr.Shreeve of Ten Acres has reminded us that five bombs fell
on the area (then fields) now occupied by Alauna Avenue and the Conway Estate.
This is not an
obituary but a mention of the death late in 1991 of Mr.W.A. Seaby. We have only recently
come to hear of it. Mr.Seaby wrote one of our early Occasional Papers,the one on Richard
Houghton, clockmaker of Oversley. Seaby's interest in Warwickshire clockmakers was not his
only concern he is known for his publications on the county's mills and was often called
in for advice on Roman coins, in which sphere he was an expert.
From this year,
the Society's financial year will start on January 1st. We have always regarded the Annual
Meeting in November as the start of the year but for several reasons it has been a very
awkward date. Subscriptions for 1992 will, therefore, continue until January 1st.
The hippie-type
travellers who have been making a nuisance of themselves near Malvern and other places
claim that their use of 'common land' is legal and proper. The term 'common' comes from
the manorial system of the Middle Ages and can be very con-fusing. It does not mean
'common to everybody' --- it never did. Traditions varied from manor to manor in one manor
the right to pasture cattle on certain land would be common to a dozen tenants; in another
manor it might be only six; in another, it might be twenty. One thing common land was not
common to was the general population.; certainly not to people outside the area.
A Meeting To
Reserve:-
Wednesday 10th February 8 p.m. Greig Hall,Alcester
HISTORICAL HOME MANAGEMENT by Michael Barber, Manager of Ragley Hail.